Today in History - History - February 10th

1934Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"

201366 British Academy Awards: Argo, Ben Affleck, Daniel Day-Lewis and Emmanuelle Riva win

200850th Grammy Awards: Rehab, Amy Winehouse wins

1991Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament

1989Celtic KC Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame

1824Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru

1525Albert of Prussia pledges a personal oath to Sigismund I and is invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs

1949Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC

1946Charles "Lucky" Luciano is deported to Italy, and never returns to the United States

1992Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana

1974Elizabeth Banks, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, American actress (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Man on a Ledge)

1902Walter Houser Brattain, Amoy, China, American physicist (Nobel 1956-transistor)

1890Boris Pasternak, Moscow, Russian novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958)

1927Leontyne Mary Violet Price, Laurel Miss, opera soprano (Porgy & Bess)

1899Future US President Herbert Hoover (24) marries college sweetheart Lou Henry (24) in Monterey California

1974NBA player Julius Erving (23) weds model Turquoise Brown at Waldorf

2001Singer-comedian Weird Al Yankovic (41) weds Suzanne Krajewski

19461st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum

1966Reggae Musician Bob Marley (21) marries fellow musician Rita Anderson (19)

1858US president Millard Fillmore (58) weds Caroline Carmichael (43) in Albany, New York

2005Arthur Miller, American playwright, dies at 89

1992Alex Haley, US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70

2014Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat, famous as a child star in the 1930s (Bright Eyes, Heidi), dies of natural causes at 85

1918Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 84